Jean-Luc Mélenchon is particularly angry with the State regarding Mayotte devastated by Cyclone Chido. “It is destitution, underdevelopment, class contempt that killed” the population of this department, denounced Thursday evening the leader of La France insoumise, deploring the “political abandonment” of the archipelago.
“We are not just talking about a climatic event. We are talking about the way in which compatriots, human beings, men and women who are our brothers and sisters in humanity are treated,” he said.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon thus deplored that we had “left thousands and thousands of people in barracks and shanty towns”. “And when they wanted to destroy the slums, yes, the Rebels opposed it in the National Assembly,” he explained, because “destroying a slum is within everyone’s reach. But we still have to tell people where they are going to go.”
Criticized by former President François Hollande for having castigated the abandonment of Mayotte by the State, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said he was “certain that the servants of the State do their job as soon as they are asked to do so.” do”, but “the question that is asked is whether there are enough of them to do it, whether they are trained enough to do it”. But “I criticized the political abandonment of Mayotte because they are not being told today that there is an unbearable problem in Mayotte. And the Insoumis are not saying it today. We didn’t wait for this catastrophe to say it’s going to get bad,” he said.
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For the LFI leader, “it’s deprivation, it’s underdevelopment, it’s class contempt that has killed so many people there, maybe 100, maybe thousands,” evoking “an extremely uncomfortable feeling seeing that 100, 1,000 or thousands of deaths”, as the authorities estimate, “did not provoke more reactions”.
